Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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Seite vii
... less in domestic history . His father , he tells us1 , would talk with him about Sacheverell's trial , which led to the overthrow of the Whigs under Anne ; whilst Johnson himself lived to see the premiership of the younger Pitt . Such ...
... less in domestic history . His father , he tells us1 , would talk with him about Sacheverell's trial , which led to the overthrow of the Whigs under Anne ; whilst Johnson himself lived to see the premiership of the younger Pitt . Such ...
Seite ix
... less , as to his fearing death more , than falls to the lot of or- dinary minds . Allowances of this kind must be made even whilst acknowledging to the full the unhappy influence over Johnson's mind of physical disease and inherited ...
... less , as to his fearing death more , than falls to the lot of or- dinary minds . Allowances of this kind must be made even whilst acknowledging to the full the unhappy influence over Johnson's mind of physical disease and inherited ...
Seite xvi
... less ; While yet my steady steps no staff sustains , And life still vigorous revels in my veins ; Grant me , kind Heaven , to find some happier place , Where honesty and sense are no disgrace . " " " " And again , in closer reference to ...
... less ; While yet my steady steps no staff sustains , And life still vigorous revels in my veins ; Grant me , kind Heaven , to find some happier place , Where honesty and sense are no disgrace . " " " " And again , in closer reference to ...
Seite xix
... less be possible , with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope , in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation , ' MY LORD , ' Your lordship's most humble , most obedient servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' The ...
... less be possible , with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope , in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation , ' MY LORD , ' Your lordship's most humble , most obedient servant , ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' The ...
Seite xxi
... less dislike for exertion of every kind , seems to have regarded this work with peculiar favour . We are informed that it was on his request and recom- mendation that the works of Blackmore , Watts , Pomfret , and Yalden were added to ...
... less dislike for exertion of every kind , seems to have regarded this work with peculiar favour . We are informed that it was on his request and recom- mendation that the works of Blackmore , Watts , Pomfret , and Yalden were added to ...
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